Candace Cameron Bure refuses to fuel the body-shamers invading her comments section.
Over the weekend, the Full House alum deleted a photo of herself wearing a bathing suit after her comments section became “flooded” with negativity. When a fan asked about the missing post, Bure said she decided the picture wasn’t worth the unkind commentary.
“I was at the beach. I was in a one-piece, not a bikini,” she wrote Saturday on Instagram Stories post. “I am soaking up the end of summer. I was having fun.”
She clarified that her decision to delete the post “wasn’t about my bathing suit or my body,” but was about the way people responded. “The comments became flooded with people discussing my body,” she wrote. “It wasn’t worth it. I took it down.”
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This is not Bure’s first time weathering discourse surrounding her body. Last year, Bure joined Boy Meets World alums Danielle Fishel and Rider Strong for an episode of their Pod Meets World podcast, where they commiserated about being sitcom stars during the formative years of their youth and having their bodies scrutinized by the public.
“That’s when girls really change,” Bure said of her teenage years, noting that she was “always the chubby-cheeked girl,” and while she now knows that she was just “a normal, average girl,” fan encounters often left her worrying about her weight.
“You meet people, and they’re always, like, ‘You’re so much thinner in person,'” she continued, “And you’re just like, ‘Is that all people see? Do they just see my chubby cheeks?’ And so, of course, as a teenager, you feel that insecurity whether you’re on television or not. But it gets magnified when you are.”
Bure delved further into the subject on a July episode of her eponymous podcast, which saw her open up about her struggles with body image and bulimia, sharing that she was put on diet during her early years in the spotlight.
“It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, you have to lose weight.’ It’s just, ‘We’re gonna do this as preventative. We want to teach you how to be healthy and exercise,'” said Bure, who did the diet with her mother and sisters. “That completely shattered the viewpoint that I had about myself, and the feelings about my body.”
Noting that her parents meant well, she added, “My parents never wanted a producer to come up to me and say, ‘We need your child to lose weight.'”
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The episode also saw Bure detail her struggles with bulimia as she got older.
“I developed an eating disorder when I was 18. It was binging and purging,” she said. “I’m a bulimic. I still say I’m a bulimic because the thoughts, whether I’m doing that or not, never leave me. I still need the tools to say, ‘No, Candace, we’re not doing that.'”
She continued, “I feel like a broken record. I’m 49 years old, and I’m, like, ‘Why do I think about this so much? Why does it even matter so much?’ It’s so ridiculous, and yet, I’m still thinking about it.”
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The actress and Christian influencer noted that she is still gaining new tools and resources to help her through body image struggles, and knows that she is not alone in that search.
“I’m reading everything I can. I want all the information. There’s certainly been amazing things and tools that have helped me along the way, but there’s still nothing that has really changed my heart and soul on it,” she admitted. “I still constantly think about it…. It’s really vulnerable, but so many of us feel the same feelings.”
